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Xbee007:

I love your military sense of humour.

I recall the one about snipers where they said something like "you can run but you will die tired". So better stay put and take a bullet in the head.

Funny thing about humour is it's not exclusive

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BEL anti drone system

It has a electro-optic sensor, a communication system for interrogation jamming and a radar.

It is a portable unit with FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) radar and a communication jammer capable of taking on both uplink and downlink networks. It has an electro optic sensor onboard aiding the missions.

BEL is now working on adding GPS-spoofing capability for the same so as to ‘confuse’ the intruder drone and bring it to a particular area.

A demonstration was shown to the Ind... Army. The user wants some more additions and BEL working on the same.

K

Over the next decade, Indian armed forces need some 3,000 unmanned aerial platforms, both armed and unarmed. As new roles get assigned and New Delhi’s foot print gets expanded, the UAVs fill will provide pin-point intelligence, and ability to provide deadly strike capability.

Defence news in Hindi

I told you guys terrorists,or rather their backers are qualitatively changing the nature of their support. Its not just AK,RPKs,RPGs,HMGs and some reckless but now NVGs and level 3 flak vests are now common with terrorists in ME battlefields. I know I've seen ISIS in Syria in platoon strength in conventional parade formation wearing at least level 3 vests but can't find the pic.

First is a Talib with a Pulsar Digisight mounted on an M4

there is mounting evidence to suggest that certain elements within the Taliban have not only gained infrared and thermal viewing capabilities, but are becoming proficient in their use.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/12/19/night-vision-capabilities-taliban-afghanistan/

Going back to this Taliban Red Group again, we have accounts that the group might be using the LAM devices on their rifles to aim at targets in low light conditions–
“They have their own mobile special forces unit which is equipped with lasers and night-vision gear…[b]the Taliban were using night-vision goggles and the police who were sent were shot by laser-guided weapons against which they could not defend themselves. [/b]The police have no night-vision goggles at all.”

The Paris supermarket attacker is here wearing a level 4 vest. A committed terrorist somehow lacking a sponsor can always hook up with serving SAS supply sergeants!

Soldiers stole and sold advanced SAS equipment to a dealer who then moved items like body armor, stun grenades, and night-vision goggles on to the Far East.

Logistics soldiers Sergeant Craig Davenport and Corporal Stephen Suffield stole kit worth up to £44,000 from storehouses of the elite special forces unit.

https://www.sott.net/article/330729-Heroes-Troops-stole-and-sold-L44k-worth-of-high-tech-SAS-equipment-prized-by-terrorists

Nemesis8u,any idea on the Armata? When it came out in 2017 it was to be productionised by mid 2017 with a version having a whopping 152 mm cannon-now,only radio silence. Any news? Was it delayed or cancelled?

Russia will not mass-produce its new third-generation T-14 Armata main battle tank (MBT) as it is too costly, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Russian media on July 30. Instead, the Russian military will continue to rely on older platforms such as the T-72B3s (fitted with explosive reactive armor), an upgraded variant of the original Soviet-era T-72 MBT, or the T-90A MBT, according to Borisov.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/08/russia-will-not-mass-produce-t-14-armata-main-battle-tank/

There's always the possibility this is fake news.

Ukrainian Armed Forces shelling Donbass militia positions | Spring of 2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7PexEkdExs

Artillery will always be extremily useful suppressing infantry movements but is not doing so well destroying single targets. But this is often needed on the battlefield: a good example why Precision Guided Ammunition is cost and time saving.

kikuyu1:
Nemesis8u,any idea on the Armata? When it came out in 2017 it was to be productionised by mid 2017 with a version having a whopping 152 mm cannon-now,only radio silence. Any news? Was it delayed or cancelled?



https://thediplomat.com/2018/08/russia-will-not-mass-produce-t-14-armata-main-battle-tank/

There's always the possibility this is fake news.

No idea ,

Anyways getting a weapon system ready for operational deployment is a very long drawn process 3 - 5 years or maybe more depending on the weapon system.

Possible wind tunnel model of Akash NG

It gives vibes of Astra mk2 air to air missile too , not sure.

Any ways missile has total 8 control surfaces , 4 at rear and 4 at mid section

Akash NG will start trials this year.

ASRAAM integration on overwing pylons of jaguar

There is a adaptor for the missile and the rail

ASRAAM is to be integrated on Su30mki and LCA also

Pics from this year's QRSAM test

Stimulated deep sea rescue exercise by IN DSRV by transferring crew from a submerged kilo class submarine.

AstroSat peers into the heart of Jellyfish galaxy

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news...eers-into-the-heart-of-jellyfish-galaxy-64919

According to the authors, this galaxy is unique as it provides direct evidence of internal and external mechanisms at work to halt the formation of stars in the galaxy.

The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard India’s space observatory, AstroSat, has provided an insight into processes at work in the heart of a jellyfish galaxy.

Researchers who studied anatomy of a jellyfish galaxy, called JO201, have found that it comprises of a central bright region surrounded by a bright broken ring-like emission structure.

Ensconced in between is a cavity or void like region of rather faint ultraviolet emission. The ultraviolet light from the bright ring is due to young stars formed in the last 200 to 300 million years.

By comparing this with images from other telescopes at different wavebands, researchers have shown that the cavity is due to scarcity of young stars. This means no new stars have been formed in this cavity region for at least the last 100 million years.

Galaxies are very large aggregates of billions of stars held by the gravitation. Milky Way, our home galaxy is believed to house nearly ten billion stars with the Sun as one amongst them. On a larger scale, it has been found that even galaxies flock together due to gravity in groups of hundreds to thousands, known as galaxy clusters.

The region between these galaxies is filled with very hot gas whose temperature can be as high as millions of degrees. As a galaxy moves through this hot gas, some of the cold gas in the galaxy's outer regions can be pulled back, leading to formation of stars in structures that resemble tails or tentacles. This gives them the appearance of jellyfish, and hence, they are called jellyfish galaxies. One such jellyfish galaxy is JO201, which has been studied by astronomers from India and abroad as a part of an international collaboration called GASP.

“Galaxies come in two varieties — those that appear blue have young stars and are the star-forming variety, while red ones are those which have old stars and there has been no recent formation of stars in them,” explained K. George, who carried out the study at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.

A blue galaxy can become red if it stops forming stars. Galaxies may stop forming stars due to various processes within the galaxy itself such as the effect of supermassive black hole at the centre; the presence of a rectangular bar-like structure which is made up of stars and located near the centre; or massive explosions accompanying stellar death called supernovae. The stripping of gas from the galaxy due to its motion in the hot gas between galaxies in a cluster could also impede the formation of stars.

Regarding the curbing of star-formation in this galaxy, researchers favour the hypothesis of the active galactic nucleus (AGN). Most large galaxies are believed to possess supermassive black-holes at their centres. The mass of these supermassive black holes could be hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of Sun. The gas and dust from the neighbourhood swirling at very high velocities into the supermassive blackhole increase the brightness of the central region multi-fold, and the galaxy is said to pass through an AGN phase.

In JO201, it is reported that the central region is bright in ultraviolet because of the AGN, and not due to young stars. The energy released from the AGN heats up cold gas clouds present close by. As stars are formed from cold gas clouds, this heating of gas leads to an arrest of star formation. This, in turn, results in a scarcity of young stars giving the galaxy a cavity-like appearance around the AGN.

The incomplete ring structure seen with lack of ultraviolet towards the left of the bright ring is explained due to the lack of young stars in this region. However, in this case, this cessation of star-formation is explained due to external effects, a result of gas being stripped out from this galaxy. Notice that this is the same side which has the tail like structure, far out in the galaxy.

According to the authors, this galaxy is unique as it provides direct evidence of internal and external mechanisms at work to halt the formation of stars in the galaxy.

ISRO space docking program.

This has military applications too if modified, like kidnapping a hostile satellite etc

US had sometime ago kidnapped a non functional Chinese satellite in orbit

Pics of PSLV-C46 launch

Pics of two Naval Prototypes as both the trainer and the fighter undergo their long development flight testing to generate large volumes of test flight data for analysis , improving techniques and building experience wrt indigenous carrier based fighter development program

Naval LCA and Mig 29K

Naval LCA hook down, running in to "Slot", break into the carrier circuit

Naval LCA honing night flying skills.

Showing off the newly installed Angle of Attack and undercarriage position indicator lights.

Naval LCA night take off from SBTF

Naval LCA getting ready for the big one (flight arrestment). Once deemed ready, the arrester wire will be rigged

Naval LCA hot Refueling, the key to maintaining flight testing tempo. Now available even at night.

Standby for "Hot Switching" of pilots next ( feature not available in many modern fighters )

Naval LCA Live "Cable Bruise" test for the tyres

Naval LCA Ground to Air photography for flow visualisation of fuel jettison.

Poor Man's Optical Landing Aid (POMOLA) for naval LCA on the right to enhance safety for steeper glideslope test points

Time to go

nemesis8u:
Naval LCA hot Refueling, the key to maintaining flight testing tempo. Now available even at night.

Standby for "Hot Switching" of pilots next ( feature not available in many modern fighters )

You don make me like this aircraft walahi

LCH

AAD ( advance air defence ) interceptor

Guided pinaka